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BlueWavePsych

(2,634 posts)
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 11:32 AM Jul 2021

228 GOP lawmakers call on Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade

Source: CNN

Under normal circumstances, the Supreme Court is reluctant to overturn past cases, relying upon a doctrine called "Stare Decisis" which is roughly translated to mean "stand by the thing decided." The doctrine reflects a respect for the accumulated opinions that have been handed down in history as well as the consistent development of legal principles.

*snip*

"A history of confusion in the lower courts, an unstable pattern of Supreme Court decisions, and a persistent lack of judicially manageable standards all suggest that a precedent is or has become unworkable," they said in their friend of the court brief.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is representing the clinic and its medical director, Sacheen Carr-Ellis. Lawyers for the center will respond to Mississippi's appeal later this year.

Last year, the group urged the justices to allow the lower court opinion to stand, arguing that Supreme Court precedent makes clear that before viability "it is up to the pregnant person, and not the State, to make the ultimate decision whether to continue a pregnancy."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/politics/republicans-roe-v-wade/index.html




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228 GOP lawmakers call on Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade (Original Post) BlueWavePsych Jul 2021 OP
Why don't they go back to Russia durablend Jul 2021 #1
This posting isn't about this article directly but is about the USSC and it's conservative voting in2herbs Jul 2021 #2
Thus making it apparent to SCOTUS that they are making this a politicized issue bucolic_frolic Jul 2021 #3
If the current right wing federalist society justices sitting on this bench can and did gut turbinetree Jul 2021 #4
228 GOP Lawmakers and probably a lot more want to overturn Democracy too. nt chowder66 Jul 2021 #5
Where will they take their underage mistresses when they have "a problem?" Vinca Jul 2021 #6
Oh don't you know - the law does not apply to them. lark Jul 2021 #11
EXACTLY DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #16
This could be a defining time. It is concerning. twodogsbarking Jul 2021 #7
Can we get a 100 million women to tell all of them (GOP and SCOTUS) where to go? sinkingfeeling Jul 2021 #8
I sure hope so DFW Jul 2021 #9
Here's to cynicism Marthe48 Jul 2021 #10
Yes exactly ArizonaLib Jul 2021 #15
Just before every election DENVERPOPS Jul 2021 #17
This is a decision to be made by the women of America, it's not my business nor any man's. IMO. rickyhall Jul 2021 #12
Love it or leave it. n/t Harker Jul 2021 #13
Gee AnnetteChaffee Jul 2021 #14
"(Stare Decisis)...has become unworkable. Good to know. Grins Jul 2021 #18
I wish these people ALL due karma and I wish it upon them now. onecaliberal Jul 2021 #19
Roe v. Wade and control of the SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016 LetMyPeopleVote Jul 2021 #20
This shit again!??? People are dying of COVID and poverty and this is what the GOP focuses on?? joetheman Jul 2021 #21

in2herbs

(2,942 posts)
2. This posting isn't about this article directly but is about the USSC and it's conservative voting
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 12:16 PM
Jul 2021

record. How much of Roe are the repugs going to be able to chip away at using the shadow docket process?

I just read an article posted by Reuters saying that, under the USSC’s shadow docket process, the conservative majority on the USSC granted emergency requests by Christian and Jewish groups challenging COVID 19 restrictions imposed by officials in NY state. The article also found that the court favored TFG’s administration while denying almost 100 applications by other private individuals or groups. TFG prevailed on 10 death row issues and on 9 issues brought by Republican officials in red states to curb efforts to facilitate voting during the pandemic. Meanwhile, not one of the private petitions or 33 pro-se petitions were granted.

The link is here: https://www.reuters.com/article/legal-us-usa-court-shadow-video/the-shadow-docket-how-the-u-s-supreme-court-quietly-dispatches-key-rulings-idUSKBN2BF16Q. Reporting by Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham and Scott Malone.


MY NOTE: There is no transparency to the USSCs shadow docket process yet shadow docket decisions have just as great an impact on our lives as the court’s published decisions. President Biden’s commission to study USSC reform is said to be addressing this issue, however, Supreme Court lawyers are not supportive of changes to the shadow docket.

bucolic_frolic

(42,669 posts)
3. Thus making it apparent to SCOTUS that they are making this a politicized issue
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 12:33 PM
Jul 2021

I doubt the Court will go there. Even some conservatives shy from the divide and conquer tactics.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
4. If the current right wing federalist society justices sitting on this bench can and did gut
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 12:38 PM
Jul 2021

the 1964 Voting Rights Act, this present federalist society court will gut the 1973 Roe vs Wade law when they begin to nibble at the edges , and then they will go after Social Security and Medicare and nibble at the edges ...because dark money after all is free speech....just ask John Roberts...and his cronies...

lark

(23,003 posts)
11. Oh don't you know - the law does not apply to them.
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 03:13 PM
Jul 2021

They can pay their good buddy doc friend from the country club to take care of it and they will do it. Or they will send the mistress or daughter to someplace overseas and she will get the abortion there. This is to control the working class, ensure a supply of cheap labor - that is what SCOTUS and their also rich RW friends are driving towards and always has been. Of course in their ideal world the working class has no vote and they are also working hard for that too.

DENVERPOPS

(8,679 posts)
16. EXACTLY
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 04:34 PM
Jul 2021

I remember in High school several girls with rich daddies who would SUDDENLY decide to do a semester of schooling abroad.
They all went to some school in one of the Scandinavian countries for six months.......

DFW

(54,051 posts)
9. I sure hope so
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 02:59 PM
Jul 2021

Because if we don't you know where the Republicans and their majority on the Court will tell the 100 million women to go.

Marthe48

(16,691 posts)
10. Here's to cynicism
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 03:06 PM
Jul 2021

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, r politicians will lose one of their big talking points. I should say blathering points.

Whether or not the article is about politicians specifically asking the USSC to overturn an established ruling, or if it is about the stance of politicians on the national stage, if r's succeed in repealing this ruling, they might keep their old guard in hand, but newer or younger cons might not be attracted. Nor will the over 70% of American voters who think abortion should be legal.

ArizonaLib

(1,242 posts)
15. Yes exactly
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 04:03 PM
Jul 2021

What WILL start to dominate headlines on the subject as before row v wade, are deaths from procedures performed at home.

Between losing this faction and the fossil fuel purchased faction, the republicans will lose a lot of support.

DENVERPOPS

(8,679 posts)
17. Just before every election
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 04:38 PM
Jul 2021

The GOP starts harping on the triggers that get their voters to turn out......

GAYS........GUNS.........GOD.

Works every time!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grins

(7,134 posts)
18. "(Stare Decisis)...has become unworkable. Good to know.
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 04:43 PM
Jul 2021
"...confusion...unstable pattern of Supreme Court decisions, ...of judicially manageable standards all suggest that (Stare Decisis)... has become unworkable."

Anyone wanna' tell Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Cindy Hyde-Smith...? Or Kavanaugh?

onecaliberal

(32,483 posts)
19. I wish these people ALL due karma and I wish it upon them now.
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 04:46 PM
Jul 2021

I don't see how we come back from any of this. These people are committed and are literally killing people but can't be bothered to care.

LetMyPeopleVote

(143,999 posts)
20. Roe v. Wade and control of the SCOTUS was on the ballot in 2016
Thu Jul 29, 2021, 08:31 PM
Jul 2021

I am still irked that Stein voters and sanders voters who voted for TFG are responsible for the gutting of Roe

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